![]() No one knows what Ventress’s story is, only that she is completely isolated. Cass describes Gina Rodriguez’s paramedic Anya Thorensen as sober - which means she’s an addict. The physicist, Tessa Thompson’s Josie Radek, self-harms. Cass, the anthropologist, suffered the death of a child. “We’re all damaged goods here,” Tuva Novotny’s Cass Sheppard tells Lena. Lena believes the knowledge of her infidelity drove Kane to go on a suicide mission her guilt, curiosity, and something inexplicable compels her to join a new mission comprised of four other scientists. Ventress (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and finds out Kane is hemorrhaging, suffering organ failure after having spent a year inside the Shimmer. Lena wakes up in Area X, the Southern Reach facility where she meets psychologist Dr. An ambulance rushes him to the hospital, but the ride is intercepted, and they’re taken by a mysterious government agency. He doesn’t feel well and begins to cough up blood. He suddenly reappears in their home, without any memory of what happened. Natalie Portman’s Lena, a biologist teaching at Johns Hopkins and a former soldier, leads a lonely existence, mourning her husband Kane (Oscar Isaac) who has been gone for a year, lost on a covert military mission. She is like Orpheus retrieving Eurydice in the underworld, only instead of being unable to look behind her as they flee, she must first take a good long look into the darkness before escaping. After Lena’s husband Kane returns home, near death and remembering nothing after a year inside the Shimmer, Lena herself embarks on a suicide mission into the mystery of the Shimmer, and into herself. It’s about self-destruction as something cosmological, alchemical, psychological, biological. Alex Garland’s Annihilation is a film about memory, perception, transformation, mutation, the inexorable relationship between creation and destruction. ![]() This is the Shimmer, a three-year-old anomalous phenomenon that’s rapidly expanding, consuming the land. This is a place of mutations and phosphorescence, of fractals, of strangeness, the uncanny. A lighthouse swallowed up by something that resembles tree roots, bones, cancer. A tableau: a man ripped apart, embedded in flowers and lichen. ![]() A giant albino alligator flecked blood-red, with teeth like a shark. Synaptic, crystalline trees echoing the trees in the forest. Flowers stuck in a continuous mutation - each bloom different, yet growing from the same plant. “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” - Carl Jung, Psychology and AlchemyĪ bear with a woman’s scream, its face peeled back to reveal a human skull, a suffering, lumbering thing. People went around for year sitting in McDonald’s and Bel Air cocktail parties saying, ‘What the hell does that obelisk mean?’” - William Friedkin “Usually if people are talking about what something means in a movie, it means you’ve got a movie people want to see. ![]()
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